Re: single-key-description no good for Japanese and Chinese chars

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:
> I'll take your word for it; I know nothing abou this. I thought Handa was
> saying that an integer event indicated such an "invalid" key. If not, then I
> guess one is reduced to parsing the `single-key-description' - that's what I
> do currently.
>   

You are confusing events with entries in keymaps. An event is something 
that is generated by the user typing or using the mouse. A keymap maps 
events onto commands, but it does not necessarily do that directly by 
having one entry for every possible event. What Handa was saying is that 
an integer entry in a keymap indicates a generic character - that is, a 
keymap entry that maps a whole group of individual events onto a single 
command (self-insert-command being the most useful command to map in 
this way).